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The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has developed the forecast balance of electricity for 2017, according to which it is planned to increase the share of nuclear power plants, operated by the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom, in the production of electricity up to 53%, to 83.3 billion kWh, Director of the Department of Electricity Sector of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry Olha Buslavets said at a meeting of the Public Council under the ministry.
"Today, in the project of the forecast balance of electricity for 2017, which has been developed by the ministry, the share of nuclear generation amounts to 83.3 billion kWh (53% - UNIAN) with a total generation at 157 billion kWh," Buslavets said.
Read alsoUkraine set to boost its nuclear and hydropower generation - PMShe also added that the increase in the share of nuclear generation next year was intended to move away from electricity production at thermal power plants, as the price of energy derived from nuclear power is much lower than that of thermal generation.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on October 19, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman stated that Ukraine plans to boost generating capacities of its nuclear and hydroelectric power plants.